第三章 模拟练习与答案
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1. In the early nineteenth century, Washington Irving wrote .which became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.
2. The Romantic period in the American literary history covers the time between the end of the century to the outbreak of the . It started with the publication of Irving's and ended with Whitman's . This period is also called.
3. Irving's The Sketch Book is a collection of essays, sketches and tales, of which the most famous and frequently anthologized are and .
4. The Transcendental Club often met at 's Concord home.
5. Emersonian Transcendentalism is actually a philosophical school which absorbed some ideological concerns of American and Euro pean Romanticism.做梦捡钱
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6. was regarded as Father of the American short stories.
7. Irving also wrote two biographies, one is The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, and
the other is .
8. Cooper's novel was a rousing tale about espionage against the British during the Revolutionary War.
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9. The central figure in the Leatherstocking Tales is. 丑石原文, who goes by the various names of Leatherstocking, Deerslayer, Pathfinder and Hawkeye.
10. In , Whitman airs his sorrow at President Lincoln's death.
11. The great work not only demonstrates Emersonian ideas of lf-reliance but also develops and tests Thoreau's own transcendental philosophy.
12. In , Whitman's own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of a young growing America.
13. "Imbued with an inquiring imagination, an intenly meditative mind, and unceasing interest in the ntenor of the heart' of man's being" is ud to describe .
14. by Melville is a novella about a ship who black slave cargo mutiny holds their captain a terrorized hostage.
15. A superb book came out of Thoreau's two-year experiment at Walden Pond.
16. From Thoreau's Concord jail experience, came his famous essay
17. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne's novel .
18. Melville's novel is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a emingly supernatural white whale.
19. The best of Cooper's a romances was .The hero of the novel reprents John Pall Jones, the great naval fighter of the Revolutionary War.
20. is the narrator in Moby-Dick.
21. Transcendentalism was put forward by the people from .
22. has been regarded as "America's Declaration of Intellectual Independence."
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23. Published in 1823, was the first of the Leatherstocldng Tales, in their publication time, and probably the first true romance of the frontier in American literature.
24. The way in which wrote The Scarlet Letter suggests that American Romanticism adapted itlf to American puritan moralism.
25. can somewhat be called "the Father of the American detective story".
II. Multiple Choice
1. Statement is wrong in describing Nathaniel Hawthorne.
A. One source of evil that Hawthorne is concerned most is over-reaching intellect
B. Hawthorne is a realistic writer
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C. Hawthorne is also a great allegorist
D. Hawthorne is a master of symbolism
2. In Walt Whitman's "There was a Child Went Forth," the child refers to .
A. the poet himlf as a child B. any American child
C. the young America D. one of the poet's neighbor
3. In Moby-Dick, the voyage symbolizes .
A. the microcosm of human society B. a arch for truth
C. the unknown world D. nature
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A. nature B. transcendentalist ideas
C. human beings D. celestial beings
5. The Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant writers America has produced so far, Emerson and .
A. Henry David Thoreau B. Washington Irving
C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Wait Whitman
6. tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.
